S2E1: Challenger Disaster | Days That Shook the World

S1E10: The Assassination of JFK | Days That Shook the World

The stories of a day that rocked the American presidency: the assassination of its youngest leader, John F. Kennedy.

3: Globalisation | World 2000

What is globalisation and how does it affect us?

Till (2022)

After black 14-year-old Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for offending a white woman, his grieving mother goes public in her fight for justice. Activist org...

9/11: Inside the President's War Room

Twelve hours with the president on 9/11 - with direct testimony from President Bush, Vice-President Cheney and senior staff - as it cha...

A Great Society? | Wheeler on America

(2/5) Charles Wheeler charts the origins and the decline of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programme, looking at how it changed the liv...

1929: The Great Crash

Over six terrifying, desperate days in October 1929, shares crashed by a third on the New York Stock Exchange. More than $25 billion in individual weal...

3: Supremacy | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy Worsley reveals the myths and deceptions in the story of America following the United States' emergence...

22: Star Wars: 1981-1988 | Cold War

Reagan's 1983 ''Evil Empire'' speech sets the tone for a more aggressive US posture against the Soviet Union, and the costly arms race is...

4: Trade, Debt and Aid | World 2000

Global creation and distribution of wealth, effect of fair trade and international debt.

5: Civil Rights in the US | History File

Drama documentary covering the history of civil rights in the USA in the 50's and 60's. Today's story is about the legacy of slavery...

Eisenhower and bombs | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy explains how the Soviet threat was talked up, resulting in the Titan 2 missile which could trav...

The Cuban Missile Crisis | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy unpicks Kennedy's lauded efforts in the Cuban Missile Crisis and considers whether his brav...

16: 1957: Skin Deep | People's Century

Through nonviolent and more direct methods, people rally to fight segregation in South Africa, and several states in the United States.

2: The Brooklyn Bridge | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

This programme tells the story of father and son engineers John and Washington Roebling and their scheme to bu...

4: After Emancipation | History File

Schools programme which looks at how people moved from slavery to freedom. How did former slaves acquire land? Where did they go when th...

Episode 10 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

In the 20th century, families like the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts built and spent massive fortunes. Political dynasties s...

Episode 4 | Ameireaga air Film/America in Colour

To Americans the 1950s are the golden years. Having recovered from World War II, the life of the nation was on the up. The n...

Eruption at Mount St. Helens | Surviving Disaster

Mount St Helens' in Washington State stood almost 10,000 feet high and in 1980 had not erupted for over one hundred years.

Malcolm X (1992)

Biographical epic about the influential and controversial black nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster to his ministry ...

S1E10: The Resignation of Nixon | Days That Shook the World

The stories of a day that rocked the American presidency: the resignation of Richard Nixon.